cameras
yet by a long shot... (These are little pocket cameras.)
Rick Glazier
From: maccrawj
All along making them grainier and grainier!
No answer here but be sure to process them w/o compression until the end because I'll
bet they are already low-rez like my CP5700 creates and each re
My first guess would be you would need a third party
OS Bootloader Program to sort this all out.
Acronis has that as part of the Disk Director Suite, and
there is a freeware one that sounds like GAG (or something).
(Not an inpriring name for something this important... grin)
Rick Glazier
From
It is a shame they put eveything in there anymore, more overhead for
me and my HD (hardware) and then hold it hostage for more money.
Thanks for the tip.
Rick Glazier
From: Brian Weeden
You're right - the bastards at Microsoft have disabled the multiple
concurrent users capability for XP
I must have been in too much a hurry when I read the original question.
I admit, my answer makes no sense.
Somehow I assumed they would be on the same partition not the same machine.
Rick Glazier
- Original Message -
From: Jamie Furtner ja...@furtner.ca
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
A friend gave me a Tape-to-DVD machine a couple years ago.
An older Go.Video model. (I think they closed down.)
The Macrovision on the tapes pervents them from being copied.
YMMV... (Good luck.)
Since I had a Video camera since 1981,
I had lots of other uses for it, grin...
Rick Glazier
Thanks!
BUT (and the married members will get this...)
I Can't let the wife know.
Let me know if you find it and I'll send shipping money and info. (Offlist.)
Rick Glazier
From: Robert Martin Jr.
If you go VCR to computer, I have an old inline stabilizer (Notice I didn't say
macrovision
it simpler, but it always works.
Rick Glazier
out and put the new one in the exact
electrical place of the old one BEFORE THE FIRST BOOT.
I might add it back later as a slave or data only drive.
Hope that makes sense and helps...
I do these almost in my sleep. Sorry if it is still not clear...
Rick Glazier
From: swzaske
I have to be honest
I checked a slightly older Seagate and discovered it needed a firmeware update
TOO.
I was not expecting that, and (or course) did it, and all is well.
(It has been a few months now...)
Rick Glazier
- Original Message -
From: Naushad Zulfiqar
The seagate got a bad rap due to initial
your vote when you just disconnect...
Rick Glazier
From: swzaske
The issue is that WinXP suported video cards from both camps in the same
system, Vista did not and Windows7 does but Nvidia has disabled that
capability with their drivers. What's wrong with having an AMD GPU
driving your main 3D
. Sorry to post my related question, next...
Rick Glazier
From: Bobby Heid
I am looking at a frined's pc that has XP (home I think). When it boots up
to the screen where you would normally see the users, there are no users on
the screen (there are at least two on this pc). I can do a double
CTRL
Related?
I saw a similar problem recently at a friends house.
For about a year, (after they did something and forgot what),
their Welcome Screen has DOUBLE USERS. (Pairs of each actual user.)
(Picking) logging in one of either of each pair takes you to the same USER,
and when one of them is
I think they made the depth one foot now.
I had buried to the old spec of two feet years ago.
(I was running Class 1 wiring though. -- 120v-AC, don't mix that in same pipe.)
I always used plastic pipe/conduit.
Rick Glazier
From: maccrawj
Conduit STRONGLY recommended between cave house. Make
LAN down to dial-up connections.
http://www.teamviewer.com/products/benefits.aspx
Once started, they can leave and not even watch...
Each session requires a new password, so you can't wander back
on your own...
Rick Glazier
From: Steve Tomporowski
Ya gotta remember the total incompetence
List-Unsubscribe:
http://lists.hardwaregroup.com/options.cgi/hardware-hardwaregroup.com,
mailto:hardware-requ...@hardwaregroup.com?subject=unsubscribe
That is in all message headers that this list sends.
Click the second line and all your problems will be solved.
(Make that our problems
I have a friend with a ~20?~ year old son, and I'm sure he would like
a link to that if possible.
I helped him build a box about a year ago, and he insisted on XP
for games.
He is in school (still) and could get Win7 for $29 (Student Version).
I have not pushed him towards it yet...
Rick Glazier
Thanks, I had the bugs with some of the older ones.
Rick Glazier
- Original Message -
From: swzaske
Memtest86+ V4.00 was just released!
Symantec has an exclusions list for stuff you want un-touched.
I find it easier to keep the files somewhere else.
(Or store them in encripted archives.)
Rick Glazier
From: FORC5 Not sure about the newer Norton,
Sorry, I forgot about using stuff other places. (I rarely do.)
(And about - how you would un-pack it there.)
But, I can't agree with the rest.
They have to draw the line in the sand somewhere.
One persons' hacking stuff is someone else's fix'in tools... grin
Rick Glazier
From: FORC5
it to a total of three machines.
Currently running 2009NIS on XP and Vista.
WITH CPUs as low as Single core 1.7G-AMD.
They are VERY responsive to problems and will upgrade you
(free, same time-out of your existing subs.), at the drop of a hat,
if that helps solve the problem.
Rick Glazier
From: Tim
My Seagate LARGER drives were firmware fine, (As in: factory newer type),
but I kept digging, and had to flash an older, smaller Seagate drive...
Sorry, the details are lost, but I was VERY surprised when the smaller
serial number came back as needing new FIRMWARE.
Rick Glazier
From: Zulfiqar
The products (NIS + AV) have improved,
except the brain dead *smart update*
in Norton Utilities 14. (Newest.)
The ads are very odd...
Rick Glazier
From: Don Couture
Their products suck why shouldn't their advertising...
Check the rate for media mail too.
That is a book rate.
From: FORC5
fit in a flat rate box ?
Great, They stumbled at first, repaired it quickly.
3.5.2 is current.
Rick Glazier
From: Anthony Q. Martin
Subject: [H] firefox 3.5
Any of you using this yet? What's the word?
Good, bad?
a U3 drive, see here:
http://www.u3.com/
Compatibility across the different companies is something you need to
test yourself. Simple types of files work great...
Rick Glazier
From: DSinc
Seeking opinions about use and computability of the (Sun) OpenOffice.org
office suite (Writer, Calc, Impress
Get the estimate first and see if it is worth the extra risk you will be taking.
I tried it and had some sort of odd problems I can't remember.
Rick Glazier
From: DSinc
j.,
OK. I get this. What is my going forward position now?
Like post-compression.?
I used Ghost until they took too long to support writing the Image files
(when recording originally) TO NTFS drives.
I think I last used the 5x ver... Maybe 5.D?
Acronis captured the moment, offered a GREAT competitive discount/upgrade
and the rest is history...
Rick Glazier
From: Soren
clipped
Sounds more like a permissions thing...???
(Or Ownership??)
I stay away from that stuff, grin
Rick Glazier
From: Anthony Q. Martin
HmmI don't think that's the case...we don't use any standardized
templates. Whatever the problem, it seems to work different on XP and
Vista/Win7. I move
Sounds like someone is accusing them of being an open relay...
Lots of times that is a false positive/reading from getting on a black list
unfairly by someone not bothering to un-subscribe from something properly.
Rick Glazier
From: Sam Franc
clipped
Here is the complete message:
boit
Me too... Years ago I got some from Batteries.com, but for the cheaper units
I wait for GoodFriday sales, etc., and just get the whole unit new...
Rick Glazier
From: Richard Kim
I've used 3rd party batteries on a bunch of APC backUPS for over 3 years now
with no problems what so ever.
too much yet, but I have to figure
the signals coming from the old antenna will pass the same as they
always did through those old amps. Is the worst that can happen
the digital signal will flat-top/clip? Seems like that would
actually clean them up a little... (Wish I was sure..?)
Rick Glazier
it right at the VHF/UHF 75ohm rabbit ears to feed a converter box from
there.
I'll try it on my Desktop Computer next week.
(I'm working my way up from cheapest to most expensive stuff...)
Rick Glazier
. I would feed the output to ONLY Digital-ready
TVs (etc) of course.
What are the chances this might work as hoped?
TIA. Rick Glazier
- Original Message -
From: maccrawj Subject: Re: [H] Cable Modems Splitters
Cable modem should be on 1st *tap*, no later.
I guess you answered my question, yours is an active amp
and NOT a passive splitter.
Product Features 3044
Ideal for amplifying weak antenna signals
50-900 Mhz amplified forward path
5-42 Mhz passive return path
22 dB gain
Robust construction
Now all I have to do is find mine...
Rick
Thanks. The annoying part is, the final changed knocked out one
of the three main major network channels on two DTV tuners in
two Windows Media Center boxes, 1) Laptop + 1) desktop) that
I use for timeshifting.
They have the 3 to 4 inch single rabbit ear for now.
Rick Glazier
- Original
.
Never even have to install the program to HD unless you want to...
Rick Glazier
From: FORC5
Been using ghost for years and like it's simple interface but newer versions do not seem to be able to just make a boot disk for
this purpose. On occasion ghost just does not see the drives or whatever
I got there with 2 minutes left. 12 bids so far...
Too cheap...
Rick Glazier
From: FORC5
feedback score *0*
beware
My fist question is: Which one is different.
I'll go look at my settings while I wait for the reply...
Rick Glazier
From: DSinc
Only 1 of my machines will auto-magically pop up a notification window
on browser opening w/FF or Add-on's updates. All the rest sit dormant
and wait for me
answer like this was enough...
Rick Glazier
- Original Message -
From: DSinc
Rick,
So Sorry! The one that is different is the one that does its' FF updates
somehow auto-magically! (Addy8-C2D/e8400-WinXP)
...
Rick Glazier
- Original Message -
From: DSinc
Rick,
That is pre-zactly what I have seen also. RShack is convenient. No
argument. A good commercial electronics supplier that is local can be
really tough. clipped
would say the problem rests with the analog output being set wrong,
or the KVM not emulating the correct res.
Try it without the KVM as a test...
(I'm not currently using mine because it has a lot of oddand/or
aberrant behaviors...)
Rick Glazier
From: DSinc
Ever since I got my Dell E207WFPc 20 wide
reason I never throw away my old adapters.
I always bought direct from an Electronics Distributor warehouse with
counter type store service, and while RS used to have the better/best
quality stuff, they were always exactly double on small parts...
(I wasn't buying anything big from them. grin)
Rick
Even MSIE tried to D/L the file from the link as a file...
I cancelled (or did not approve) that D/L BTW...
That page is written in a way I don't normally deal with...
I'm not going to worry about it or fix it.
You got a lot more than me. ;-)
Rick Glazier
From: DSinc
Rick,
Please share your
makeplaylist.dll WTheck?
No streams for me I guess... grin
Rick Glazier
Thanks Bryan and Greg.
I just remembered why I said security first...
With my old firewall, I always banned WMP from connecting to anything.
The TV sites always had there own viewer, so no harm...
I'll give it a shot. I think clipboard monitoring will still intercept it
though...
Rick
Be careful what you ask for... he,he,he...
- Original Message -
From: swzaske Subject: [H] Hello, echo, is anybody out there?
Guys I haven't seen any posts since last Thursday. Is the list alright?
Is anybody out there?
How do you know I'm not there now?...
Funny you should mention it, I'm headed there right now...
Rick Glazier
From: swzaske
This isn't a library. LOL
Robert Martin Jr. wrote:
I'm around but quiet :)
anymore...
Rick Glazier
From: Jason.Tozer
Completely OTT IMO.
clipped...
It's not like they set that precedent with WinME
(as in going forward from WinME)...
Rick Glazier
From: Stan Zaske
However, competing against Microsoft
is a good idea as it may bring down their ridiculous prices. Anybody pee
od'd that Vista owners don't get a free upgrade to 7?
effect, (shield, cage, effect, etc...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
One site I was to had nice animated graphics of what happens.
Rick Glazier
of rules.
MAX trimming, medium trimming, NO trimming...
It is hard to switch gears at times... grin
Rick Glazier
From: maccrawj
I simply replied to the last active message in the thread, not you per-se. Since you
trimmed Winterlight's message my response looks even more outer space!
properly.)
Rick Glazier
From: maccrawj
Free anti-virus is a joke, spend some money or do the nasty borrow a copy.
Commodo has gotten good reviews in the past. Assuming that it remembers what's it's
taught it should not be popping up all the time nor sucking up all the cpu.
I am surprised
to get that term correct and found the following:
http://www.littleabout.com/news/19199,us-astronauts-unwittingly-soft-porn-moon.html
Rick Glazier
the bearings, and new oil, and I'm sure most
(if not all) of us here are capable of that, so I'm a little
confused about the EXACT problem.
Rick Glazier
From: Winterlight
My PC includes two ASUS EAH4870 video cards
http:www.winterlight.org/4870.jpg
don't know if this will work from email
http
up.
Rick Glazier
From: DSinc
Rick,
For the most part, I completely agree with your points. But, as
Winterlight asks, and, I have seen with this present crop of video
cards, this diagnostic/repair procedure may be problematic. Not to
mention a loss of card warranty.
on the cheap.
Rick Glazier
Check you boot.ini
(Or your boot menu when you boot.)
Rick Glazier
From: Sam Franc
I thought I would get my feet wet.
So I tried installing UBUNTU on a spare computer as a windows program,
which is one of the choices.
It spent about a 1/2 hour installing.
I did things on my main puter.
When
. I tried it, but have
cronic Video problems with the log-in screens in various
Linux versions.)
Rick Glazier
From: W. D. ] LINUX?
At 11:05 6/4/2009, Sam Franc wrote:
I thought I would get my feet wet.
So I tried installing UBUNTU on a spare computer as a windows program,
Install as Windows
= 8867C13330F56A93944BCD46DCD73590
I think files of this type are self checking, but I always like to hear
it is fine another way before I get involved too far.
Rick Glazier
Can you post the (YOUR) official MD5?
(Or back channel it to me.)
I read they are a lot of imposters out there...
Rick Glazier
From: Bryan Seitz
It is up on MSDN and I'm dling it now even though I already had it lawl :)
liked it! He can be reached at
Sam, I skimmed over the intro and thought you wrote that...
While I use XP-Pro_SP3 the most, I'm warming up to Vista.
They had to jamb it into my hands inside Laptops, and it took
some work to get used to, but it grows on you...
Rick Glazier
.)
Once you are a customer, they offer deals and discounts.
I have both. They do different things.
Rick Glazier
From: Gary Udstrand
I can get Acronis True Image Home 2009 for $29.65. Is this a good
price? It seems the consensus here was that his was a pretty good
package (best?) for backup
See the e-mail headers of any message:
List-Help: mailto:hardware-requ...@hardwaregroup.com?subject=help
From: Bino Gopal
Anyone have contact info for Jim? Wanted to ask him if he knew why I wasn't
getting HWG email to my hotmail account, but it works fine on my
gmail.anyone else have this
I thought the $billion$ they threw at the RROD meant free
fixes. I've heard of people getting it fixed more than once free.
Rick Glazier
From: CW
Ok, I spent the evening rebuilding our XBOX360. This makes basically the
second one I've had to recover from the stupid RROD.
Sorry, I guess you would have checked that out. frown.
Rick Glazier
From: CW
Warranty is three years. And, while it covers a true RROD (3 lights) MS will do nothing about the Two-Light Red Problem
(overheat) which is specifically not covered unless you want to shell $125. The RROD warranty
I think cat5 will run at 1G if the run is fairly short.
(All other nics, etc, need to be 1G though...)
Rick Glazier
From: DHSinclair
Steve,
Understand your glitch with the new Gbit switch..
See if a local (free) Belarc Audit will tell you.
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html (check for OS support)
Or one On-line at:
* Run the Secunia OSI to make sure that your system is up-to-date:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/online/ (check for OS support)
Rick Glazier
From
monoprice.com
From: Steve Tomporowski Any ideas, links, bodily noises?
ThanksSteve
The good news is ??? (WTF), I've had all that happen to me...
I generally lost a custom picture desktop background, easier to loose...
I got the OS directly from MS and if they can't see it is for real, shame on
them.
BUT since I have nothing to hide I let them run their funny little proof
From: Anthony Q. Martin
I really don't care if they come back or not.as long as my lovely
67-inch LED DLP keeps working 'til it dies...
I'd be willing to bet it will... VBG
Rick Glazier
File this as a guess. Monitors use different modes.
My older ones made a significant click when switching from the default
BIOS video to the mode Windows uses. I guess one mode (at least)
has broken. Not much help...
Rick Glazier
From: Winterlight
I have a CRT
reset
stuff EVEN if remote access/configuration was turned off at
the time. (I'm sure it was OFF, with two settings.)
I guess we can assume there is a back door.
That makes sense, as long at it is secure.
Thanks for the suggestion below, but I am too limited to do that.
Rick Glazier
From: maccrawj
think running two would be a problem.
Or they would at least have to be aware of each other and co-operate.
Or the OS could handle it, if they wanted to.
Besides, I think *everyone* has always said that was a bad idea.
Rick Glazier
From: Thane Sherrington
At 01:45 PM 23/02/2009, Veech wrote
install what they think
are
wonderful new drivers or hardware related stuff.
One thing I've noticed, same as you might be saying, they seem to error on the
side
of caution and add in some Office stuff, even if Office seems like it is not
installed at all...
(Seen that more than once...)
Rick
on.
I think I know what happened, and can't easily check.
Is it obvious he reset the gt704wg, or am I missing something?
(I was like a deer in the headlights.)
Sorry. TIA
Rick Glazier
builder, we milked it a year with
about $45 in parts, before we replaced EVERYTHING 100%.
I think I still have it here somewhere.
Rick Glazier
From: Thane Sherrington
do you see this logo, or an IBM logo. I see that
logo - Acer. was the reply,
://www.amazon.com/Pavilion-dv5140us-Bluetooth-Widescreen-remarketed/dp/B000O3K9R2
I'd pull the drive and remove the convertor socket (if any) to be sure.
Warning: The HP SATAs use a small convertor on the drive that makes
it look funny.
Rick Glazier
From: James MakiHard Drive Upgrade Options HP
://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=599language=en
Note: Even with SATA, you give up speed to get size.
WD Scorpio Black vs Blue
Rick Glazier
- Original Message -
From: James Maki
I think I may have gotten the cart before the horse. I could not find ANY
7200rpm 2.5 PATA drives.
)
All the other segments of those scores are pretty high.
(But then again, I'm used to building myself junk.)
I'm NOT a Gamer...
Good luck. The MB is the Intel Classic Series.
Rick Glazier
.)
Rick Glazier
From: dsinc218
But all my reads yesterday and today tell me that WinXP can NOT recognize SATA of any flavor (hard drives and CDROMs) w/o F6 added
drivers.
I have both(via pata/sata converters!)...
Getting ready to try demoting the hard drive back to pata
they don't want to know...
(It starts with FF, and goes on and on and on.)
My friends could not learn to answer all the prompts and make all
the run-time decisions I need to make.
They want: K.I.S.S.
And some get hacked once in awhile...
Rick Glazier
. It was a little harder to
use and required more steps.
Rick Glazier
From: DHSinclair
Sam,
Yes I did solve the problem. I used PartitionMagic7. The partition(s) is/are
happy and well. All is back to normal again.
The Acronis trial-ware would only let me LOOK
that Win2003Server gives at install time that tells
you to set something up in 7 days or less or it will not work anymore.
I only saw that once. I never ran it past a day or two.
Anybody know what the warning was, and if it would
screw up DHS?
Rick Glazier
From: Scott Sipe
On Jan 22, 2009, at 6:19 PM, Rick Glazier wrote:
Sorry if I sound dumber than dirt...
There is one warning that Win2003Server gives at install time that
tells
you to set something up in 7 days or less or it will not work anymore.
I only saw that once. I never ran it past
I've had other very odd Adobe stuff I never needed...
But only you will know how you got it, or why.
Sorry, but I never used that...
Rick Glazier
From: DHSinclair
Rick,
Thank you...So, if I will never [build] anything I can now toss
Adobe AIR?
Well, that's my read of your shares
Rick Glazier
of the options
are missing. It also put it in a system owned D/L folder.
32 bit English MD5:
F9DCE6EBD0A63930B44D8AE802B63825
64 bit English MD5:
773FC9CC60338C612AF716A2A14F177D
Thanks in advance
Rick Glazier
- Original Message -
From: Gary VanderMolen
Actually, I
Thanks, It was the drive firmware...
Rick Glazier
From: Harry McGregor
The Seagate firmware issue is with the 7200.11 drives, most notably the
1.5TB, though some reports of issues with smaller ones too.
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads
1T 1.5(T?) is a lot bigger than I need. Were the BIOS issues in machines, or the drive firmware? I'd Google, but I think I'd get
too many hits.
Rick Glazier
From: maccrawj
Are Hitachi's still good? I ordered a D7K1000 instead of the Seagate 7200.11 1TB after
streaming WEB audio is a lot easier.
Rick Glazier
From: Brian Weeden
Let me guess - they happen to be crippled with Microsoft's PlaysForSure DRM?
for
months.)
Rick Glazier
- Original Message -
From: Joe User I just can't settle on a solution to an issue I have. See, I
live out in the sticks. AM radio is a nightmare in the evenings. I
want to listen to talk radio when I go
adjust the
sound to suit me.
Rick Glazier
From: Joe User
I have an iPod myself. I don't do the podcasts though. I have tinnitus
pretty bad from years of abuse by way of working as a DJ in night
clubs and also as a radio DJ.
.)
Rick Glazier
From: DHSinclair
Merry Christmas! Rick,
Yes, I do plan to check the hs/fan combo first. I did have trouble getting
it to click on to the m/b. I do suspect this even though the fan spins at
power on (as does the chassis fan). I will start a debug session in a day
or so
The E8400 is a socket 775.
Check the CPU heatsink.
That is a poor design, and I patched up friends box when the fan fell off,
(or got a little loose).
Rick Glazier
DHSinclair wrote:
j.,
No it did not even work back here on my desk/workbench.
Things are getting better. It is becoming a mature OS.
Rick Glazier
From: FORC5
curious how that is working for ya ? I have that but am afraid to mess with it
due to the stories I read about drivers and such.
At 08:21 PM 12/17/2008, Bryan Seitz Poked
Sounds like some sort of window shade prank.
Rick Glazier
From: Brian Weeden
Here's a brain stumper for ya. Just in the last couple of weeks I've
started seeing some weird stuff with my file explorer windows in XP.
Sometimes when I click on them
Check the MB for a header first.
Rick Glazier
From: Winterlight
Am I correct in thinking that a add in PCI serial port would not
require a third party driver in Vista 64. that vista 64 would see
it as a standard serial port?
the video bug
has blocked me (and lots of others) from Ubuntu for over a
couple years.
Rick Glazier
From: Joe User said
BTW... Ubuntu is really, really,... really, worth looking at.
From: DHSinclair
I have already been told that I may NOT fix my Sister's machine (even
though I built the thing)! She will call me for the real-time walk-thru of
Doesn't want you to find the porn? VBG
specific, and that I can see, but only actually
use
around 3.4G+ with a 32bit Win-OS
Rick Glazier
From: maccrawj
What does swapfile size have to do with it? You move the %temp%, %userprofile%, and
swapfile to D:\ also.
I've been running that way
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